As I was up early this morning watching the financial markets, I happened to go over and click on to the CA Citizens Redistricting Commission webpage. Sure enough at 3am this morning, give or take, all the new districts had been posted. Here is the link for them.

After perusing them for a few minutes, I would have to say that they most resemble the look of the last draft that came out, not the first draft that was originally posted and the one that I spoke about here last week.

My first impression is that the most intriguing thing of them all are the new Congressional lines in OC.  Instead of a battle royale between Dana Rohrabacher and Loretta Sanchez, the Commission decided to draw lines that will most likely pit John Campbell against Dana Rohrabacher. Loretta's current central county CD will get the addition of more Republican areas of Garden Grove. It's now an imminently winnable seat for the GOP.

Elsewhere, a new CD goes from Orange/Villa Park down to most south county cities. I've already been hearing through the grapevine that current Congressman Ed Royce has been making calls to electeds in this new district seeking endorsements. If this is true, this will leave the new North Central CD an open seat. Again the inside info says that should these lines hold up and Royce opts for the aforementioned district in south county/Orange, Supervisor Shawn Nelson and Assemblyman Chris Norby could potentially face off for this coveted seat. Lastly, the cities of Dana Point and San Clemente are drawn together with areas of North Coastal SD County currently represented by Congressman Darrel Issa.

I'll do separate posts about the new State Senate and Assembly districts.